Personally, I thought Boehner delivered a better speech. Too bad that key points were outright lies [View All]

Boehner's speech was clear and agressive in it's tone. Rather than advocate for compromise, the Speaker painted a picture of a President out of control that he and his fellow House members would bring to heel. It would havee been a great speech except for two key points (and you may have noticed others)

"A healthcare plan nobody asked for": Mr. Speaker, you have to be crack-smoking stupid if you think that no one elected Barack Obama to help get health insurance for all Americans. Ask any family who has declared bankruptcy due to the expenses associated with long term illness. Ask any family who has had to watch loved ones suffer or die because they did not have the cash or credit necessary to obtain necessary care.

"The House passed a bi-partisan plan": Mr. Speaker, you mentioned that the President threatened to veto cut, cap, and balance. While this is technically true, you failed to mention that the House's brilliant little plan passed along party lines with a tiny handful of Democratic support. You also conveniently left out that the House plan got nowhere in the Senate. In fact, Mr. Speaker, your counterpart in the Senate, Sen. McConnell, has recommended a plan that has garnered more bi-partisan support; three Republicans and three Democrats in the Senate recommended a plan that makes far deeper cuts than those approved in the House; and Republican Tom Coburn recommended a plan that I personally dislike, but that would have a better chance of passing than your plan simply because it's 9 trillion in cuts were offset by a trillion in increased revenue.

You stood there and spit invective at HCR and the stimulus, and yet never were man enough to admit the truth: the Republicans controlled the White House, Senate, and House from 2001-2006, and never saw fit to pass a balanced budget amendment. The Republicans controlled the White House, Senate, and House from 2001-2006, and never balanced a budget -- choosing instead to make reckless tax cuts because they were more interested in getting re-elected than in solving America's problems. Of course, what should we have expected from a President and a party who thought the way to make America safer in the wake of 9-11 was to invade Iraq -- a nation that had nothing to do with the terror attacks on our soil, and a nation that had none of the WMDs you led us to believe we'd find.